Amazing Colorized Photos From Days Gone By

Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, taken in February, 1865
Boxing match aboard the U.S.S. New York, July 3, 1899
Yvonne (13) and Alexander (12) Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn take drink and smoke on yacht near Majorca
An Ojibwe Native American spearfishing, Minnesota, 1908
Adolf Hitler with Mussolini’s son-in-law and Joachim von Ribbentrop, attend a Nazi Party rally, 1930s
Soldiers wearing gas masks while peeling onions at Tobruk, October 15, 1941
Captain Walter “Waddy” Young and his crew pose in front of their caricatures on their B-29 Superfortress, November 24, 1944
Post officers show off their brand-new “Autopeds” scooters, Washington, D.C., 1917
Performer Sarah Vaughan, 1946
Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia, sling cart used in removing captured artillery during the American Civil War, 1865
A mother helps her child off the trolley on a Broadway in New York City, July, 1913
Black man drinking at ‘Colored’ water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July, 1939
Kissing the War Goodbye in V-J Day, August 14, 1945.
A young John F. Kennedy immediately after his graduation from Harvard, in the summer of 1940
Times Square, D-Day, 1944
Observer on Iwo Jima, February, 1945
Stalin and Churchill during the Yalta Conference, February, 1945
Louis and Lucille Armstrong at the Sphinx, January 28, 1961
A deserted boy holding a stuffed toy animal, London, 1945.
“Young boy in Baltimore slum area” smoking a cigarette, July, 1938

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